The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1887-09-10

Git NOltl-allt tI9 Hoi!S - iSSt'ii - .
today asking himself, and apart from
mere partizln considerations, if the an
swer is not favorable to the candidate,
the party which has nominated that !
candidate will sustain the loss. If the
candidate offered by one party be
plainly incompetent, inexperienced or
unfit Tor the position for which he has
been nominated, no amount of partIZan
appeal, no crack of the patty whip will
drive men to his support. That condl-
ton has long since passed in Cecil
county. On the other hand, if the
candidate of another party be man
of unquestioned capacity for the place
for which he has been selected, and is
recognized as possessing in the highest
degree the needed qualifications for the
position for which he is candidate, in
the present condition of parties is Cecil
county, factional party lines cannot be
drawn against him. In other words
the intelligent sentiment IN both parties
today in Cecil county is IN favor of the
capable in preference to the incapable
candidate. 1t is plain that this condl-
ton of public sentiment is favorable for
securing the test men in important
local offices. 1t is an unmistakable evi-
dence that our people have kept pace
with the general advance in popular
education, and that they share the pro-
gressive spirit OF their day, because it
compels political parties, the organiza-
tons of which are too generally left to
| individual hands to manage,-to exer-
else more judgment and care in the
selection of candidates, knowing that
the balance of power-as certainly is
the case in Cecil county-is in the
hands of the independent voter, and
that he will throw it in favor of the
most capable candidates.
We submit then to this class of voters
the decision, which Of the two
tickets presented for their suilrages,
was nominated under the conditions
more favorable for securing the best
men. Isn't it a fact that the Demo
cratic ticket now presented to them is
a iactional one or rather combination
of factional elements, and that it rep
resents Only minority Of tie Demo-
cratic s'ottyS Of tie roHnLr.'
Isn't it a fact that it Is the outcome
of bitter and intensely personal indi-
vidual contest for party supremacy in
the county, and that the question OF
individual qualification of the candi-
drtes composing it, was less considered
than the factional recognition Of indi.
vidual service rendered in the canvass
which preceded it's nomination.
Isn't 1t equally true that the Repub-
lican ticket as it stands before the
voters of the county, was selected with
out contest, and more with direct refer
ence to the individual qualification OIL
those composing it2 No candid man
will deny that the conditions under
which it was selected were more favor
able for meeting the non partizan de-
mands of the voters of the county than
the ticket Of its opponents. We believe
that no independent voter in the county
can make reasonable objection on
the ground of personal standing, capa-
city and fitness, to a single man on the
Republican ticket, and that Republi-
cans can ask independent voters to
support it, not on partizan grounds,
but because the characters of the men
on it, afford the taxpayers of the
county ample assurance OF The faithful
discharge of the duties of the positions
for which they have been nominated.
Moreover we have an abiding conf
dence in the success of this ticket, and
that too, reasonably based, upon the
general evidence Of it's acceptability to
our people.